Know your market
Fortunately we receive few mailshots. However, this was a very strange and utterly pointless one!
Firstly, Sherborne is approximately 27 miles away, inland from the coast. That is casting an estate agent's / realtor's net pretty wide for business.
Secondly, a modicum of research would show the approximate current resale value of where we live is well under £200,000. For comparison, Rightmove ( a big UK agency) have calculated the average property price in Dorset for the last year as £376,546 ($457,555) i.e approximately twice the value of our abode.
Thirdly, look below and you'll see the other half of the mailshot lists four properties they have listed (not even in Dorset!) that we might like to buy. The cheapest is £925,000. The most expensive is £2,850,000. So we would need to sell five of our current homes to bid for even the cheapest on offer and around 15 homes for the most expensive.
Know your market
Fortunately we receive few mailshots. However, this was a very strange and utterly pointless one!
Firstly, Sherborne is approximately 27 miles away, inland from the coast. That is casting an estate agent's / realtor's net pretty wide for business.
Secondly, a modicum of research would show the approximate current resale value of where we live is well under £200,000. For comparison, Rightmove ( a big UK agency) have calculated the average property price in Dorset for the last year as £376,546 ($457,555) i.e approximately twice the value of our abode.
Thirdly, look below and you'll see the other half of the mailshot lists four properties they have listed (not even in Dorset!) that we might like to buy. The cheapest is £925,000. The most expensive is £2,850,000. So we would need to sell five of our current homes to bid for even the cheapest on offer and around 15 homes for the most expensive.